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THE DUTCH AND SWEDISH COLONIES
ON THE DELAWARE.
By Gregory B. Keen, L. L. D.
(Vice President of the Swedish Colonial Society and
Curator of the Historical Society of Pensylvania).
The Colonial History of Pennsylvania may naturally
be dated from the discovery in 1609 of our chief bay
and river by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the
service of the Dutch East India Company, The
following year our bay was visited by Sir Samuel Argoll,
and was named by him in honor of the Governor of
Virginia, Lord Delaware. In 1614, in response to the
petitions of certain merchants, an ordinance was passed
by the States-General of the United Netherlands,
granting all persons, who should discover “any new
countries” the exclusive privilege of “resorting to” them
“for four voyages” within a time to be determined
according to circumstances and distance. As a result
of this decree, vessels were fitted out at Amsterdam
and Hoorn, and sailed for America, one of which,
commanded by Captain Cornelius Mey, entered the
Delaware—an event commemorated in the names of capes
Henlopen, Mey and Cornelius, the last two being taken
from those of the explorer. In consequence of these
discoveries and those of other navigators between
Manhattan and Cape Cod, the merchants interested obtained
from the States-General the sole right to traffic for three
years in “lands situated in America, between New
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